Prefatory
I work in an environment where we end up with a few hundred WordPress sites.
Many standalone installs as well as multi-site installs that have hundreds of sub-domains.
A frequent request is to add plugins to sites, and for standalone sites this is not something I normally deal with as their install integrity is in their own hands, but for shared servers and multi-site installs more care has to be exercised, less the server go down … for the lulz.
So to decide whether someone can use a plugin, I have to “grade” it. I do this by doing an install and checking for notices, warnings, etc. I also check for basic things like … does it actually do what it says it does? Does the code make sense? Is it written in a way that won’t break later? How much documentation and experience does the developer have, what’s their style like, and so on.
So I figured I’d start posting this stuff!
More often than not, the plugins I get asked to reviewed are very bad stuff. LOTS of errors, notices, they don’t work the way they are supposed to – blah blah.
Today I reviewed: List category posts